Challenge for the interim manager

At dinner last month, just days before Auburn city manager John Salomone announced he was leaving for Newington, Conn., the topic of the mis-timed traffic lights in Auburn came up.

One of the ladies at the table, we will call her Fran (yes, she has appeared in someone else's column on occasion) asked why I had not written on the subject in some months.

I had found a kindred soul who thought the subject humorous (only in columns) and maddening (when trying to get from her home to almost anywhere).